Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-12-14

rifle in-hghting ensued. IN CHANCERY.
The round ended by Dempsey throwing Rea-
gan, and falling heavily upon him The Sec
ond round ended the same way, and Dempsey
claimed that Reagan was "spiking" him, which
brought caution from the referee. In the
third round Reagan accidentally spiked
Dempsey in terrible manner on his left leg.
The bone could be seem the cut being so deep.
There was considerable wrangling, Dempsey's
umpire claiming the fight The referee how
ever, overlooked it, and the fourth round
was opened with thump in Dempsey's
stomach. This was followed by close fight
ing, and Dempsey closed the round by throw
ing his antagonist.
The fifth round was desperately fought, and
ended like the fourth, and the sixth
showed remarkably scientific fighting on
both sides, and Reagan made change in the
close by throwing Dempsey heavily. The
seventh round witnessed some hard fighting,
several vicious exchanges taking place, but
Reagan was frequently short in weil-intend-
ed blows and the eighth round was notable
for sounding blow on Dempsey's body
For some time it had been evident that the
ring was pitched in bad place-too low an
elevation-and the tide rising flooded it At
the end of the eighth round the water was
ankle deep all over the ring, and the referee
stopped the fight, the stakes were pulled up,
the party embarked and sought new place
The time occupied in fighting had been
eighteen minutes. 1t was 1910 ?. m. before
the fight was resumed in q new place and the
ninth round began.
From this on it was plain that Reagan was
overmatched, but foil of pluck He got in
an occasional blow, but Dempsey smashed
him right and left. and almost invariably
made Reagan's hackers sick of the London
rules by closing the round by throwing his
opponent heavily to the ground and falling
upon him. One feature OF the fight was the
terrific and scientific mitigating. which has
really been equaled and probably never sur
passed.
In the eighteenth Reagan got fearful pun
ishment, and was so ratified that Dempsey
wound it up by getting his head in chancery
and thumped him numerically. In the
twentieth round Reagan began the tactics of
falling to avoid being thrown, which brought
from Dempsey the remark: "Get up and fight,
YOU - curl" Reagan didn't relish this but
| ne kept up the dropping, and Dempsey kept
| on tantalizing him. From this on there was
no doubt of the issue of the fight, nor of the
| Spartan-like gameness with which Reagan
| could take punishment. The rounds from
the twenty first to the forty first inclusi We
were all in Dempsey's favor, and rounds
forty two, forty three and forty-four prac-
| tically closed the battle, In these three
rounds Dempsey numerically punished Rea-
| gan, whose lips We're putfed, and his left eye
badly swollen. He was game man, how
ever as ever stood in ring. He never cried
| quit.
At the beginning of the forty-fifth round
| Bob Smith, at the solicitation of Reagan's
friends, who saw that he had no chance to
win, jumped into the ring and threw up the
sponge,
The fight lasted one hour and nine min
utes In the first ring there was eighteen
minutes and in the second ring fifty -one min
utes. The fight ended at l:Ol p. H., leaving
Dempsey still the champion middle weight
Each man weighed at the ring l47. Demp-
sey is % years old and Reagan II Demp-
sey is 5 feet 81 inches high, and Reagan
feet Ga inches. Dempsey has won thirty
battles and has had six drawn. He has never
been defeated. Reagan has only fought
two times before. This is his third fight, and
| his FIRST tiefaaf